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Winter Garden

Co-ordinator:  Carol Dancer

Two Japanese maples greet visitors to the Winter garden.  The garden springs to life in October led by the purple berries of the callicarpa bodinieri shrub. By the end of October, Camellia sasanqua will start to flower and continue until the first prolonged frost. Mahonias and sasanqua camellia begin to bloom In November. Hellebores, iris, primulas, rhododendrons, corylopsis, witch hazels, daphnes, viburnums, and honeysuckles are in flower.by Christmas.

Other unusual plants include Drimys winteri and Azaramicrophylla and serata from the southern hemisphere (our winter flowering plants usually come from Asia). Drimys winteri is a small evergreen with loose clusters of creamy white jasmine scented flowers. The bark of this tree, a native plant of South America, is said to have saved Captain Cook and his crew from scurvy.

Winter Garden

 

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News and Events

Mark Your Calendar for the Victoria Lily Society Show
July 9 to 13 at the Mary Winspear Centre, Sydney 

The show runs Friday 1 to 5  p.m, Saturday 9:30 am to 5 p.m, (with a plant sale until 3 p.m), and Sunday 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Admission by donation.

Saturday Presentations:  Dr. Colin Tamboline,  Lilies – Summer Splendor, 1:30 p.m.  Ms.Barrie Agar, Stalwarts In The Perennial Garden, 2:45 p.m. Cost for both sessions is $5. Tickets available at the show desk.
 
For more details, visit News & Events | Victoria Lily Society

Have the Sharpest Tools in Your Garden Shed

Vern from Sharp and Sharper Sharpening Services will be at the lower parking level on Tuesday & Thursday from 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on: July 10, Aug 5 & 7, Sept 2 & 4. The Friends will cover the cost for communal garden tools, but not individual volunteer ones.

Price List

Per inch: knife: $.75 serrated knife: $1; bevel edge grooming & barber scissors: $2.50; fabric shears: $2.25

Per item:
$3: chisel, serger blade, & round pizza cutter
$5: rotary blade
$6: pet nail clipper & medical scraper tool
$8: hoof knife: hatchet, medical scissors & secateurs (hand pruners)
$10: axe, loppers, & tin snips
$10.50: clipper heads
$12: dematt comb, hand hedge & grass trimmer
$12.50: large body clipper head
$15: straight razor
$18: clipper head 5 in 1
$38: convex hair scissors

 

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